Sweden’s Skott released her debut album, ‘Always live for always’ on 26th June, a couple of weeks later than scheduled. We covered a prev...

We found out yesterday that Finnish post rock band ‘Ghosts on TV’ had signed to Helsinki label Soliti, and it was a reminder that althoug...

My attempts to write about ‘quiet music’ lasted about a day, but there is rather a hefty stream of ‘noise rock’ style releases in our inb...

We get a fair few highly produced releases sent in our direction, often with big PR machines behind them. The new album ‘Slippery Satelli...

We’ve covered Yune (not to be confused with the also featured Lune) a few times over the last 12 months, but the good news is that their ...

I don’t know about anywhere else, but it’s been a ‘scorcher’ here in the UK today, the hottest day of the year, with perfect sunny skies ...

I always like coming across bands who haven’t released anything for a few years, because often there’s an interesting story to tell – as w...

Now here is something completely different. May 22nd saw the release of the solo piano debut album ‘Born’ by the Swedish pianist and comp...

There’s been so many good albums out in the last couple of weeks that I don’t quite know where to start, from the infections lo-fi guitar...

If the Oxford English Dictionary ever takes it upon itself to redefine minimalism it could do worse than to offer up When ‘Airy met Fairy...

Danish artist BÜNNI has been on our radar for just a few weeks, as we were sent his track ‘Taste for Life’, leaving me intrigued about hi...

Good old Fiona. We wait eight years for an album, having waited seven years for the previous one, from the artist who only writes “when s...

Welcome to 'Human. : II: Nature.’, the ninth studio album by Nightwish, which used to be a metal band. While the metal contribution this ...

We featured Finnish post rock band ‘Ghosts on TV’ earlier this week, and another band from the same nation with similar influences are ‘M...

In 1994 Swedish guitarist Steven Andersson (today Steven Kautzky Andersson) formed a band to present his visionary mix of Jimi Hendrix, g...

I have tried to feature songs over the years that are written in their native Nordic language, although I realise I often do miss a criti...

We still have so much new stuff to cover from last Friday, because after the new year 'lull' we seem to be hitting peak release season, a...

One album we haven't had chance to cover in detail is the debut album release from Swedish songwriter Alice Boman, which was released a f...

After featuring 'Martin Månsson Sjöstrand Trio' last week, I was conscious that we do sometimes head off almost too frequently in the dir...

I was in Oslo recently and came across 2 lovely Norwegian guys who claimed (ok, they actually were, but 'claimed' sounds more intriguing)...